, 1887-01-04
THE LABOR MOEEM ENT.
STRIKES THAT RESULTED FOR GOOD
OR FOR Ill,
The Demand for Eight Hours-The Big
strike In Chicago and the Anarchist
bomb Throwers-Big Packing House
strike--str.ot Hallway Tie Ups.

Ntfiht--Ntfftt htiiNhS ~
JANUARY.
d. Great strike and lockout OF tho engi-
neefs OF the elevated railroad system of New
York city. Travel wa almost entirely stis-
pended for "A day or two,
20. A riot occurred at Mount Pleasant, Pa.
The police and the Hungarian strikers had a
collision, in which several OF both parties
were injured.
-. Six thousand g~lovemakers of Johns
town and Gloversyille, n. Y, struck for
higher wages. The strike was not of very
long duration.
FEBRUARY.
:, The employees OF the New York Seventh
avenue, Fourth avenue, Sixth avenue and
broadway surface roads strike successfully
for u reduction OF hours.
MARCH.
3. Brooklyn street car lines all "tied up"
.. General tie up OF the street railroads
Of New York city. 1t required 100 police
men to force Il car through Grand street,
where n great crowd had assembled.
q. Five hundred men, Knights Of Labor,
employed in the Missouri Pacific railroad
shops at st. Louis, quit work at tho blowing
Of the noon whistle. One thousand other EN-
ploy.s who were also Knights also struck,
The freight business OF tho road is paralyDed.
: Secret meeting held at st. Louis, at
which the passenger engineers, brakemen,
switchmen and fremen Of the Missouri Pa
ciilc system decided to join the freight han
dlers' and carshop strike. Accordingly none
Of them reported for work, and 5000 miles
Of road idle. Immense freight blockade.
. Employees OF the Troy and I.ansingburg
street railroad at Troy, n. Y, struck FOR
fewer hours of work. Demands granted.
0 Five thousand employees OF the "Gould'
railroad system were discharged on the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
10. Vice President II. NJ. Hoxie, of the
Missouri Pnciilc railroad, declines TO confer
with the Knights Of Labor or II COMMITTEES
from the strikers.
y. jay Gould accepted Il proposal for ar
bitration. Mr.. Powderly orders the men to
work.
-. The district assemblies X. of L. refuse
to obey Powderly's order, and instruct the
Missouri Pacific strikers not to resume work.
n. Martin Irons issues n general order to
tho Knights to resume work on the Missouri
Pacific.
81. Six hundred and fifty morocco workers
II Wilmington quit work.
81. Strike OF Cohocs spinners ended. About
1000 persons affected.
APRIL.
l.. The strike on the Gould roads has been
resumed on account Of the refusal of the com
pany to rcinstate all the strikeys.
3. Bloody Saturday ~ at Fort Worth,
rcxns. Strikers resist the movement Of
trains, firing II vollcy from Winchester rifles
into II posse of deputy sheriifs, killing one and
.n%ortally wounding two Others. The officers
replied with revolvers killing one striker.
>. Mr., Powderly formally recalls his order
to the Missouri Pacific strikers to resume
work.
.. Deputy sherins in East St Louis lire
into n crowd, killing seven persons, only one
Of whom wns n striker.
H. Powderly makes an appeal to Gould for
the settlement of the southwestern strike.
Gould replies, justifying his action and re
fising to grant the request OF the knights for
arbitration.
10. A general tie up ordered on the New
York City Third Avenue Street railway.
ID Martin irons, the leader in the great
southwestern strike is, with three others, in
dicted by the grand grand jury ut st. Iouis,
for tampering with telegraph wires.
H. Widow I.nndgrntf boycotted in New
York city for employing non-union baker.
~. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, wreck n car and have II
short hut savage fight with the police.
~ The great tie up Of the New York city
street railroads is Off, with the exception OF
the Third avenue line.
20 Trains are running without molestation
On the Gould roals, although the strikers
,liil profess to he confident Of ultimate sue
Drss
~ The house committed ut Washington
begins its investigation Of the strike on the
GOuid roads. II was continued for some
time.
-. Sugar house employees at Williamsburg,
n. Y, on strike for m increase of wages.
=. Thirty five members OF the New York
TailorS' union indicted by the grand jury for
hoycotting.
q. The striking operatives OF the Missouri
Car company have resumed work. The Bal
timore street ear strike has also come to IN
end.
.. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, put ON free coaches for the
accommodation OF persons who would other
Wis bc compelled to ride in the cars.
-. Chairman ODonnell, Secretary Best,
aud Graham, Hughes and Downing. Of the
Empire Protective association, indicted by
the grand Jury Mt New York for ordering the
tie mp of the Third avenue cars
NAY
T. Chicago trades unions demand II uniform
working day of eight hours, without reduc-
ton OF wages The same demands arc made
in many other cities.
J. Forty thousand men in Chicago 20 on
strike FOR eight hours. Strikes for similar
cauSe aro general all over the country.
g. An attempt by the Chicago police to dis
lerse a meeting Of Anarchists was followed
hN = riot IN which u dynamite bomb was
thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
killing six and wounding sixty-one.
=. Rioters fired upon and several killed by
the state militia at Milwaukee, Wis.
j More shooting occurred at Chicago be
tween the police and Anarchists, and leading
rioters wcru arrested,
g. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
y. The p~ianomnkers OF New York have
abandoned THAR .lafnapI for a reduction, d.
eight hours n day.
IN Big strike at Chicago ended.
- About 1900 girls, employees OF tho
Troy. y. y, collar and cuff factories, locked
out 10y the manufacturer on account of the
strike of the laundry girls at George L. ldc&
Co establishment.
u. Eight thousand tailors locked out by
the Hos Tailors' union, New York city
JUNE.
:. John Most, convicted of melting to riot,
was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor
Tor one year and to pay II fine of $500 at New
York.
. The convention of Knights OF Labor, ut
Cleveland, closed. The differences with the
trades union Were not satisfactorily adjusted.
I Fennle members Of the families OF the
striking Chicago railroad men stop trains by
standing upon the tracks.
!. Fourteen thousand horse car men, of
Now York, Brooklyn and Long Island city,
quit work.
H. Tho Empire Protective association gives
up the fight against the Third Avenue road.
4! At the meeting OF the Brotherhood Of
Tclcstaphcrs, at Kansas City, it was decided
T. join the knights OF Labor
- Tho Lake Shorc switchmena ut Chicago.
nut On strike. became very demonstrative. n
tram OF ears thrown OF the track.
JULY.
"a Union employees OF fourteen New York
cigar factories locked out.
=. The men who distributed boycott circu-
iAr~ referring to the Widow Landgrans
bakery were convicted at New York, hcfuru